News from November 2014
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Public safety, law enforcement and resource damage concerns have prompted Reclamation to restrict vehicle access to Belle Fourche Reservoir's Tequila Beach. Tequila Beach is located on Reclamation-managed lands in the Gadens Point area of Belle Fourche Reservoir.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Assistant United States Attorney Nicholas Llewellyn, Chief of the Civil Division, announced today that the Eastern District of Missouri collected $9,437,113 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of this amount, $7,293,407 was collected in criminal actions and $2,143,706 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced today that the Northern District of California collected $327,128,651.76 in criminal and civil actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2014 - the fifth highest amount of money collected by a U.S. Attorney’s Office in the country. Of this amount, $321,472,322.57 was collected in criminal actions and $5,656,329.19 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was convicted by a federal trial jury today of robbing a bank and attempting to rob a casino.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein announced that financial collections in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 in the District of Maryland reached $27,364,401.50. The U.S. Department of Justice keeps statistics on a fiscal year basis, closing the books each September 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Zackary S. Dressner, 38, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of obscene visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William Waters, 33, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. Waters pleaded guilty on March 31, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Josh J. Minkler, Acting United States Attorney announced today the arrest of an Indianapolis man for bank fraud, wire fraud and bankruptcy fraud in a scheme involving the theft of over $5 million dollars. Todd J. Wolfe, 52, was arrested at his home this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that additional charges were contained in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury today against an Excelsior Springs, Mo., man related to his role in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: “This new portal provides critical environmental intelligence to researchers, coastal managers, and end users such as shellfish aquaculture farms," said Libby Jewett, Ph.D., director of NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program. “We hope that the data gathered through this system, combined with on-going research, can help NOAA and our partners provide information to support effective adaptation strategies and other coastal resource decision making."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael J. Ellis has been sentenced for stealing the bank debit card numbers and passwords of individuals in Georgia and Florida through an ATM skimming device.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal jury in Oklahoma City found PAULA KLUDING, 39, from Chandler, Oklahoma, the owner of Prairie View Hospice, Inc., an Oklahoma corporation located in Chandler, guilty on 39 separate counts relating to Medicare fraud, conspiracy, obstruction of a federal audit, and making false statements in health care matter, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Six defendants who were convicted of federal felony offenses for their respective roles in a cocaine distribution conspiracy in North Texas have been sentenced, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that HON KIT LAU, age 34, from Hong Kong, pled guilty today to a one-count superseding Bill of Information charging him with conspiring to smuggle turtles out of the United States and to violate the Lacey Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Clemmon Bridges, age 56, of Houston, Texas, and Darin Fields, age 32, of Bogalusa, Louisiana, were sentenced today after having previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington Gas Energy Systems Agrees to Pay $2.5 Million in Fines and Penalties for Conspiring to Obtain Federal Contracts.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement following the passing of former Congressman and long-time Committee Member Phil Crane.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement following the selection of Paul Ryan as the new Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the 114th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden announced today that the Nevada U.S. Attorney’s Office collected $10.9 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 related to criminal, civil and asset forfeiture actions. Of this amount, approximately $4.6 million was collected in criminal actions, $1.4 million was collected in civil actions, and $5 million was collected in criminal and civil forfeitures.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kelly Nicole Borger, 32, of Rochester, NY, and Los Angeles, CA, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to one year in prison, and ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service totaling $532,351.
